# Thread Hijacking **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 5, 2007, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-hijacking/406846 "2007-06-05T15:06:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2007, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-hijacking/406846/21 "2007-06-05T15:59:53Z")
[QUOTE=silenus] šŸ˜• Moi? _Serious_? I do believe Iā€™ve just been insulted. [/QUOTE] Eh, well, consider the source. ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2007, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-hijacking/406846/22 "2007-06-05T16:03:25Z")
For the love of all that is simian, what is your obsession with being a man, being manly, being tough, a cowboy? Just how big is your dick anyway that you feel you have to defend its honor with every post? No, wait, I donā€™t want to know. Iā€™ve been following these pit threads with some mild interest, and this seems like the appropriate thread to say that you strike me as petty, whiny, sanctimonious, mean, brutish, and stupid. Manly? Not so much. ---
**Author:** ![Omegaman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e480ec/32.png) [@Omegaman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omegaman)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2007, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-hijacking/406846/23 "2007-06-05T16:06:21Z")
[QUOTE=silenus] šŸ˜• Moi? _Serious_? I do believe Iā€™ve just been insulted. [/QUOTE] No you have not. I do not mince words . As **Chimera** pointed out to me yesterday itā€™s not always wise to respond to evry question or post but if I was going to insult you I would just do it. I behave in this very fashion in real life. I donā€™t threaten people at all and insults are for children for the most part. I felt very bad for insulting **Autoclyus**. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2007, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-hijacking/406846/24 "2007-06-05T16:06:43Z")
[QUOTE=Malacandra] Incidentally, why do giraffes have protective colouring? What background is it meant to hide them against (as though there was any sense in trying to hide an 18ā€™ tall animal)? Doesnā€™t the existence of this rather pretty colouring strongly argue against natural selection? [/QUOTE] We just had a [thread on this subject](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=421433) in GQ. Personally, I suspect that the coloration of giraffes is more likely to have a social function (individual recognition, or herd cohesion) than to be primarily for camouflage. On the other hand, the existence of the OP pretty strongly argues against the existence of natural selection, but does argue in favor of the imposition of artificial selection by **Giraffe**. ---
**Author:** ![Sapo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@Sapo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sapo)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2007, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-hijacking/406846/25 "2007-06-05T16:11:23Z")
[QUOTE=EddyTeddyFreddy] Look, if Iā€™ve told you once, Iā€™ve told you a gajillion times ā€“ 1000 feet for the survey sweeps! No lower! And donā€™t even _think_ of trying to get away with buzzing the indigenes ā€“ I put a new lock on the altimeter recorder, bub. :mad: [/QUOTE] 1000 feet is still too conservative. If they approach Earth passing by \*\*vetbridgeā€™s \*\* house, they can use the giraff-o-meter to determine the safety of their altitude. ---
**Author:** ![vetbridge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5e925/32.png) [@vetbridge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vetbridge)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2007, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-hijacking/406846/26 "2007-06-05T16:30:15Z")
**Sapo** and **Mangetout** are two of the boardā€™s experts regarding giraffes. Oh, then there is **Giraffe** , as well. This being the pit, well, fuck then. ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2007, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-hijacking/406846/27 "2007-06-05T16:43:09Z")
I would like to be the first poster who has not hijacked this thread. Except that now it is too late since I have submitted this post, and so should therefore be disqualified. It is, however, a post about hijacking and therefore does qualify. On the other hand, it does not address the OP specifically, and so it is a hijack after all. Then again, the previous sentence made reference to the OP, and so it cannot be said to be a hijack. Still, a third party observer ā€” say from the Green Party, for instance ā€” might interpret this post as a tirade about veganism. People perceive whatever they wish, and so an anti-PETA reader (or a meter reader) might say it is not. Either it is or it isnā€™t. Excluded middle or false dichotomy? Iā€™m not sure, but just in case anyone is concerned, I have spent the past several years building up an immunity to Iocaine powder. ---
**Author:** ![Monstre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@Monstre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monstre)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2007, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-hijacking/406846/28 "2007-06-05T16:47:12Z")
[QUOTE=Liberal] Except that now it is too late since I have submitted this post, and so should therefore be disqualified. It is, however, a post about hijacking and therefore does qualify. [/QUOTE] You only **think** it qualifies ā€“ thatā€™th whatā€™th tho funny! I thwitched pothts when your back was turned! ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2007, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-hijacking/406846/29 "2007-06-05T16:53:51Z")
[QUOTE=Malacandra] Incidentally, why do giraffes have protective colouring? What background is it meant to hide them against (as though there was any sense in trying to hide an 18ā€™ tall animal)? [/QUOTE] It works extremely well when theyā€™re standing next to a very large ruler attached to the side of a house. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2007, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-hijacking/406846/30 "2007-06-05T17:07:30Z")
To try and answer the question of the OP (assuming there is an honest question there, and why not? Iā€™ll assume that), the hijacking that went on in **Rilchiamā€™s** thread was over the top, but it is my understanding that not hijacking a thread is more a function of the OP requesting people to stay on topic, dammit, rather than mods stomping their jackbooted feet on peopleā€™s necks. Itā€™s also a function of how old the discussion is, and if itā€™s mostly played out already. In other words, hijacking like that so early in a thread, not cool. Hijacking after four pages and a week, not so bad. ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2007, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-hijacking/406846/31 "2007-06-05T17:09:48Z")
[QUOTE=Cervaise] It works extremely well when theyā€™re standing next to a very large ruler attached to the side of a house. [/QUOTE] Well, obviously. Thatā€™s why Iā€™ve never seen a giraffe standing next to a very large ruler (or even a medium-sized king) attached to the side of a house. Now Hans that does dishes can be soft as Cervaise with wild green hairy-lipped squid. ---
**Author:** ![Long\_Time\_Lurker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/2bfe46/32.png) [@Long\_Time\_Lurker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Long_Time_Lurker)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2007, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-hijacking/406846/32 "2007-06-05T17:12:29Z")
[QUOTE=Omegaman] You can be sure I can [be] an asshole of the largest caliber [/QUOTE] Heā€™s got you there. ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2007, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-hijacking/406846/33 "2007-06-05T17:13:31Z")
I submit that a thread cannot be hijacked unless itā€™s ready for it. If a thread is holding the interest of the posters, sure - thereā€™ll be smart-ass remarks and jokes and off-topic posts, but the thread will circle around back to the subject of the OP. Any thread that has been as completely and thoroughly hijacked as that one simply wasnā€™t holding interest. ---
**Author:** ![Rico](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rico/32/3582_2.png) [@Rico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rico)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2007, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-hijacking/406846/34 "2007-06-05T17:18:10Z")
[QUOTE=silenus] šŸ˜• Moi? _Serious_? I do believe Iā€™ve just been insulted. [/QUOTE] Iā€™m sorry, **Silenus**. I canā€™t hear you. Your shirt is too loud. šŸ˜ƒ ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2007, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-hijacking/406846/35 "2007-06-05T17:20:59Z")
Just wait until you see what Iā€™ve got picked out for the Vegas Dopefest in August. Luckily weā€™ll all be wearing sunglasses already. ---
**Author:** ![Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8edcca/32.png) [@Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hentor_the_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2007, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-hijacking/406846/36 "2007-06-05T17:26:20Z")
[QUOTE=Long Time Lurker] Heā€™s got you there. [/QUOTE] Dogberry: O that he were here to write me down an ass! But, masters, remember that I am an ass; though it be not written down, yet forget not that I am an ass. ---
**Author:** ![Omegaman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e480ec/32.png) [@Omegaman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omegaman)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2007, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-hijacking/406846/37 "2007-06-05T17:26:39Z")
Well lets see the tally so far is 1 mod insulting me. 1 mod hijacking . 1 mod making an actual comment related to the thread . There are a few more mods . What gems will they share ? I am so curious to find out . Shouldnā€™t you guys be at the big banning meeting? Giraffe is handing out the torches . Donā€™t be the last to come, youā€™ll end up with one of those little candles with the little paper ring around it so you dont get hot wax on you or your robes. ---
**Author:** ![Tully\_Mars](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7ab992/32.png) [@Tully\_Mars](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tully_Mars)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2007, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-hijacking/406846/38 "2007-06-05T17:26:49Z")
[QUOTE=Siam Sam] Iā€™m somehow reminded of the serious proposal made one time in a bid to keep mahouts from bringing their elephants into Bangkok, a long-running problem. The suggestion was to implant a microchip under the skin of every elephant found inside the city limits, for ease of tracking. Weā€™re all thinking, ā€œGeez, who needs a microchip to track a frigginā€™ elephant through Bangkok???ā€ The proposal died a quiet death. [/QUOTE] Thank you. I needed that. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2007, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-hijacking/406846/39 "2007-06-05T17:30:30Z")
[QUOTE=Siam Sam] Weā€™re all thinking, ā€œGeez, who needs a microchip to track a frigginā€™ elephant through Bangkok???ā€ [/QUOTE] But what if the elephant is hiding behind a giraffe? Huh? What then, smart guy? Now the microchip idea doesnā€™t seem so stupid, does it? ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2007, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-hijacking/406846/40 "2007-06-05T17:30:33Z")
[QUOTE=Omegaman] I can [be] an asshole of the largest caliber [/QUOTE] Youā€™re goatse? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-hijacking/406846.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thread-hijacking/406846.md?page=3)